IT'S time to turn back the clock and enjoy more nuggets from the Echo's first edition of May 28 1921.

Reader John Dumpleton found it in the back of a drawer.

The Echo's first edition reports on the death of a Portland workman, John Fellows, who died after falling 30ft from an oil tank on the Mere. Mr Fellows passed away at the Weymouth and District Hospital and, the report said, an inquest will be held by the South Dorset Coroner Colonel G.P. Symes into his death.

The Echo, or the Dorset Daily Echo and Weymouth Dispatch, as it was known then, also reports on the death of Mr. Robert Whitworth Hughes, a well known townsman.

It reports: "The death took place at his residence in High West Street, Dorchester. Mr. Robert Whitworth Hughes was a well known tradesman of the town. Mr Hughes, who was 67 years of age, had not enjoyed the best of health for some little time and his death was not entirely unexpected. He leaves a widow, two daughters and one son."

The report says Mr Hughes retired to Boscombe from Birmingham, then left for Dorchester, where he obtained the business of an agricultural ironmonger for a son of his who died four years ago. Mr Hughes was treasurer of the Dorchester branch of the YMCA and leader of the senior Bible class. He was secretary at the Baptist Church. Mr Hughes' hobby was stamp collecting and he had one of the most remarkable collections in the south of England, the report says.